Hybrid cloud in 2014 will occupy the cloud core

The just-gone 2013 is the fastest growing cloud computing market. Major cloud computing companies have been actively evangelizing to create their own cloud computing empire, but neither the public cloud nor the private cloud are perfect. Looking ahead to 2014, if one word outlines the cloud computing market, then it may be a hybrid cloud.

Hybrid clouds, last year for cloud computing companies may still be a buzzword. VMware introduced its vCloud Hybrid Service. Rackspace, Microsoft, HP, and Joyent have been tinkering with the software that runs software on the public cloud to manage their corporate data centers, creating a seamless management experience through these.
There is a good reason to talk about hybrid clouds here. Cloud computing is still in its infancy, which means most businesses are not yet ready to outsource their entire IT operations to public clouds, experts say. However, many companies are drawn to the benefits of the cloud, such as automated customization of virtual machines and storage. So, if the public cloud does not fit all of the use cases, and the business still needs some kind of cloud, it usually ends up with a hybrid deployment. Research firm Gartner said: "If you do not have a hybrid cloud, then in the future there will be". The agency also said that today's hybrid cloud is like the private cloud market three years ago. By 2017, Gartner predicts that mainstream enterprises will have a hybrid cloud defined as a policy-based service delivery platform that spans both internal and external cloud resources. So what is hindering the development of the industry? Employees evading IT may frustrate IT managers, but Humphreys said it just proves that employees are looking for this type of service. IT shops, he said, have the opportunity to become an internal service provider for those employees rather than having employees bypass it, and they can use approved IT resources to access cloud-based features. "The big question is, how can we make it easier for employees to pass us rather than bypass us?" So since the market has demand, why not adopt it? This may be due to a vendor-provided platform that is still immature, said Bryan Cantrill, Joyent's senior vice president of engineering, at Joyent, a smaller (as opposed to AWS, Microsoft and Google) IaaS provider on the market. Platforms from different vendors are still in their early stages. VMware just released its public / hybrid cloud platform last fall. Microsoft launched its platform for a little longer, but Rackspace is still developing and growing private cloud platforms based on OpenStack code. Joyent's hybrid cloud service is based on its SmartOS, an internally developed operating system that runs its public cloud. SmartDataCenter is Joyent's private cloud platform name using SmartOS, and customers can run it in their own environment. "We see a staggering number of hybrid clouds," Cantrill said. "When we sell private clouds, there is almost always one public cloud component." The advantage of having your private cloud and public cloud on the same platform is that as time goes on, the business between the two can change, he said . The platform on which the app should run is the best fit, not just the IT store's support. Public cloud is best if this is a highly dynamic application with unknown spikes. High security and performance-intensive applications will be better on the private cloud. And with a hybrid cloud to create a platform that can run any of them. The largest companies in the country, and those with the largest IT budgets, are fairly modest when using public cloud development and testing or backup and recovery. They already have a lot of infrastructure to support their business - they do not throw away them. Because of this, the cloud market will be a hybrid, Karnik said. If this type of company wants to use any public cloud, it will be part of a hybrid cloud. This shows how important it is to establish a unified platform between public and private clouds and to have an all-encompassing provider cloud management platform. The hybrid cloud is coming to us, and in many cases it's already here. 2013 is a year for vendors to unveil their hybrid cloud strategy, and in 2014, customers will start using them.